The University of Oklahoma
College of Liberal Studies
1610 Asp Ave Ste 108, Norman, OK 73072
Phone: 405-325-1061/800-522-4389 Fax: 405-325-7132
4750 Advanced Interdisciplinary Seminar
Course Description
Shooting the American Male: Changing Images of Men in American Society, Flim, and Television is a seminar designed to bridge both film and gender studies or, more specifically, the newly emerging field of masculinity studies.
Cinema is now over 100 years old and television more than 50 years. This seminar will investigate how men have been “shot” and thus imagined and presented in American film and television. From John Barrymore to Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart and on to Jack Nicholson, John Wayne, Eddie Murphy, Clint Eastwood, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman and others, including Homer Simpson and Jerry Seinfeld. We will consider the changing images and roles for men in American cinema and culture. The course will cover a variety of genres in film and television including: comedy, westerns, sports films, crime shows, and horror films.
Course Requirements
Participants will be expected to have seen at least half of the films and television shows before the seminar begins and to have begun our two books, finishing Heroes, Antiheroes, and Dolts before the course begins.
There will be a five to seven-page research paper due each of the two weeks and participants will be asked to make oral presentations in class on several topics agreed upon and complete several short in class writing assignments. There will be several guest speakers as well.
This seminar may be taken by OU undergraduates as an upper level elective.
Feel free to e-mail Dr. Horton with any questions you have.
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Lehman, Peter. Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture. Routledge Press, 2001. (ISBN 0415923247)
Trice, Ashton and Samuel Holland. Heroes, Antiheroes and Dolts: Portrayals of Masculinity in American Popular Films 1921-1999. McFarland Press, 2001. (ISBN 0786410973 )
A course packet of essays assembled by Dr. Horton. This packet will be available by December 4, 2006 at the Crimson and Cream copy shop in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.
CRIMSON and CREAM
900 Asp, Room 126
Oklahoma Memorial Union
325-4294
Monday through Friday
Hours: 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Tootsie (1982)
- Trading Places (1983)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Boyz in the ‘Hood (1991)
- 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
- Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
- Forest Gump (1994)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005)
- The Simpsons (1989-????)
- Seinfeld (1990-1998)
- The Honeymooners (1955-1956)
- Father Knows Best (1954-1960)
- Saturday Night Live (1975-????)
- The Office (2005-????)
- Will & Grace (1998-2006)
- Monk (2002-????)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-????)
- South Park (1997-????)
- Frasier (1993-2004)
- Sopranos (1999-????)
- David Letterman (1993-????)
Subject Matter Expert
Andrew Horton, Ph.D.
Web site Design and Development
Catherine Kerley, 2006
